Cross-border Transfer of the Registered Offices of Limited Liability Companies (planned 14th Company Law Directive)
The so-called 14th Company Law Directive will, if it comes into effect, make it possible for companies to transfer their registered offices – their legal headquarters – to somewhere else in the EU. Until now such an action was either not possible at all or required the company to be liquidated in its country of origin before it could be re-founded with its registered office in the new country. The Directive would make it possible, for example, for a German GmbH to transfer its registered office to the UK, and at the same time transform itself into a UK Ltd. That means that after the transfer of the registered office the company is organised by UK company law and no longer by German company law.
EP Vote Scheduled for Report on Proposed 14th Company Law Directive
An own-initiative report from the Legal Affairs Committee (JURI) on the proposed 14th company law directive is scheduled for single reading in the European Parliament plenary session on 1-2 February.
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- Report from the EP's Legal Affairs Committee (JURI) (January 2012)
- European Parliament resolution (March 2009)
- Commission website 14th Company Law Directive
- ETUC Resolution on the 10th and 14th Company Law Directives – March 2004
- European Parliament resolution on restructuring and employment (P6_TA(2006)0088) (point 13)
- Commission Consultation on the future priorities for the action plan on company law and corporate governance
- Commission staff working document on impact assessments for the 14th company law directive (December 2007)
